Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Language/December 2016

= December 1 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 1


 * 1) Former 86-year-old

= December 4 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 4


 * 1) the meaning of 'surrogate'

= December 5 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 5


 * 1) Definition of "hollow victory"?
 * 2) ou in southern
 * 3) Headless chickens and pork chops

= December 6 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 6


 * 1) In the past was there a phenomenon of replacement of the consonants sh/l in Hebrew and Accadian?
 * 2) Which school system is better: the Dutch, American or British one?

= December 7 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 7


 * 1) Term for "pompadour" used in the 1950's
 * 2) Finding a word

= December 8 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 8


 * 1) The bank was robbed by one Joe Schmoe
 * 2) Reading Japanese, but pronouncing kanji as hanzi

= December 9 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 9


 * 1) Transcription of a french song
 * 2) writer/rider

= December 10 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 10


 * 1) Technical vocabulary of various languages

= December 13 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 13


 * 1) Is statement correct ?

= December 14 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 14


 * 1) Translation of Latin quotation

= December 17 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 17


 * 1) English cognate of dies (Latin word)
 * 2) Poem meaning
 * 3) pautaje
 * 4) Software for accent reduction

= December 18 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 18


 * 1) What is "to rune it"?

= December 19 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 19


 * 1) How does an American communicate with a British person on British soil?

= December 20 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 20


 * 1) Pronunciation of "Santa"
 * 2) Spanish or Portuguese in article Tocache

= December 21 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 21


 * 1) French putain
 * 2) Tsim Sha Tsui
 * 3) Gregg shorthand Hebrew

= December 22 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 22


 * 1) Phonetically transcribed insults/nonsense in Hindi with which to vex telemarketers?
 * 2) Rogereeny?
 * 3) Help with inscription

= December 26 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 26


 * 1) Latin Title
 * 2) Which language easy or hard to learn base on first language
 * 3) "floating point data types" or "floating-point data types"?

= December 29 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 29


 * 1) Chanukah? Challah?

= December 30 = Reference_desk/Archives/Language/2016 December 30


 * 1) Possessives in names of workplaces
 * 2) What accent do Bob's Burgers characters use?
 * 3) Words that are technically one language but that we anglophones pronounce as if they were another language